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His publications include: co-authored with Oliver Andoh-Kesson, “Intensive Prayers: Prayer as Weapon and Relationship Among the Emerging Generations of African Diaspora,” Religions 16:7 (2025), 831; “Conversion, Water Baptism and Communion: A Pentecostal Perspective,” in Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue, eds. David Hilborn and Simo Frestadius (2023 Pickwick); New Generations, New Mission: Intergenerational Faith Transmission and the Missionary Function of African Immigrant Faith Communities (2023 IBMR); Second-Generation African Pentecostals in the West: An Emerging Paradigm (2021 Pickwick).

Caleb maintains that EPTA has the potential to bridge the gap between the church and academic institutions, facilitating the development of a new generation of Pentecostal and Charismatic scholars capable of making significant contributions throughout Europe and beyond

Thomas U. Kurt (PhD, Bangor University) is pastor in the Pentecostal Church BewegungPlus at Basel, Switzerland. He is a member of the board at IGW International, an alternative provider of theological education at bachelor’s and master’s levels.

His teaching focuses on Pentecostal theology, social ethics, and missional theology. He has published Pentecostal Perspectives on Social Justice: Rationale, Form and Practice (2025 Pickwick) as well as academic Articles in edited volumes in English and German.

He is married to Barbara, and they have two teenagers, Alec and Janna.

Dr Sheryl Arthur (DTh, University of Roehampton) is Academic Dean of Wimbledon School of Ministry, a Bible school based at Elim Wimbledon, London. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, where she co-convenes the Whitelands Centre for Pentecostalism and Community Engagement. She teaches on the MA in Practical Theology and Ministry at London School of Theology and on the BA in Theology at Birmingham Christian College. She also serves as co-convener of the Bible Special Interest Group of the British and Irish Association of Practical Theology.

Her research and teaching interests include Pentecostal theology, practical theology, and inner healing and deliverance. She has published “Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: The Elim Pentecostal Movement and Theological Normativity” (Practical Theology, 2020) and “An Elim Community Pneumatologically Engaged in Corporate Theological Reflection” in Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology: Theology that Impacts Church and World (Routledge, 2022).

Kevin (Doctor of Strategic Leadership, Regent University) serves as the Provost of Continental Theological Seminary in Brussels, Belgium. He and his wife, Wendy, are both ordained and have been missionaries to Europe sent by the US Assemblies of God since 1992. He has served as the administrator of the Sofia Pentecostal Bible College (Bulgaria) and the Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Valley Forge (USA). He has also served as a Pastor of a Deaf Church, in missions leadership, and in missions member care. Kevin has taught and published in the area of leadership in ministry and his major contribution to date has been as managing editor of the Bulgarian translation of the Full Life Study Bible. Kevin was elected treasurer of EPTA in 2023 and is thrilled for the opportunity to champion Pentecostal training in Europe, which he views as transformative. Kevin and Wendy have 3 young adult children in the US.

David Ray Johnson (PhD, Bangor University, Wales, UK) is the lecturer in New Testament at Regents Theological College (West Malvern, UK), where he has served since 2021. He co-directs the Institute for Pentecostal Theology (West Malvern, UK) and supervises PhD students in collaboration with Bangor University. Before arriving in the UK, David worked as an adjunct instructor beginning in 2013 at several institutions including Fuller Theological Seminary, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Lee University, and Southeastern University. David is the author of Pneumatic Discernment in the Apocalypse: An Intertextual and Pentecostal Exploration (2018 CPT Press). His publications have appeared in journals such as New Testament Studies, De Gruyter the Bible and its Reception, and the Journal of Pentecostal Theology.

David Trementozzi (PhD, Regent University) is Dean of Graduate Studies and Lecturer of Theology at Continental Theological Seminary, Belgium. His teaching focuses on Pentecostal theology, pneumatological soteriology, and embodied faith. He has published Salvation in the Flesh: Understanding How Embodiment Shapes Christian Faith (2018 Pickwick), as well as various academic articles. He is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God serving in Belgium with Assemblies of God World Missions.

David has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity since 2018 and became the journal’s co-editor in 2024. He is married to Emily, and they have three children, Judah, Kaleb, and Halle.

Simo (PhD, University of Birmingham) is Vice Principal at Regents Theological College, UK. He is also an ordained minister in the Elim Pentecostal Church. His teaching and research focuses on Pentecostal theology, philosophical/constructive theology, public theology, and philosophy of religion. His publications include Signs, Wonders and Miracles: Divine Action, Pentecostalism, and Science (2025 CPT Press), co-edited with Claire Williams; Pentecostal Public Theology: Engaged Christianity and Transformed Society in Europe (2024 Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Mark J. Cartledge; Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue (2023 Pickwick Publications), co-edited with David Hilborn; Pentecostal Rationality: Epistemology and Theological Hermeneutics in the Foursquare Tradition (2020 Bloomsbury T&T Clark). Simo is originally from Finland, although he spent most of his childhood in Tanzania. He is married to Caroline and they have three young children.

Simo served as the Chair of EPTA from 2020 to 2025 and before that he was the Vice Chair from 2017 to 2020. He is currently the Vice Chair of WAPTE.